Unable to add a Refinable/Managed-Property for our Yes/No field

Question

I have a site column named Deal of type Yes/No, now i want to add a refinable for this column. so i went to search >> search schema >> managed properties >> search for a refinable of type Text >> then i tried adding a crawl property named ows_Deal and a crawl property named ows_1_BOOL_Deal as follow:-

but none of these refinables work inside my refinable web part? any idea? should i create a managed property of type Yes/No instead of relying on the built-in Text type?

Answer 1

Have you ever wait at least 24 hours?

If so, it seems the refinablestringNN can only map text type of crawled property.

We can create a new managed property for Yes/No field, but it's not refinable.

Answer 2

Use the ows_Deal field. Somewhere in the doc it states to not use the other as it is used for a legacy feature for automatically created managed properties.

I would try mapping it to both Text and Integer types and test to see which result works best for you.